The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-15
AT THE CAPITAL.
LANSING, June G, 1857.

the picbcht IcBisihtuIc mas cutcicu vi INC
sixth month OF its session. The House
adopted a concurrent resolution early last
week providing for final adjournment ON
June Is, but on the theory that il was not
close could be safely taken, the Senate
promptly tabled the resolution by v9e of
yes IL, no 3, and later in the day a motion
to take up and consider the resolution re-
ceived only votes for TO II against. 1t
now looks as though the Senate will find il
necessary to extend the time to the 18th,
which will make the longest session In the
history of the State-l7l DAYS. During
the past ten years the sessions have grad
ually heightened, that of 1877 being lao
days; of 70, $50; 81 and 'S3, each 15S; 'S5,
164.
ALMOST VETO.
During the past decade or two Michigan
Governors have been exceedingly sparing
of their yetoes, and appropriation bills have
always been treated as sacred, thus escap-
ing the veto ak entirely, but the record
bids fair to be broken now, and veto of
no less important a measure than the gen.
eral appropriation bill for the State Uni
versity for 1878 seems possible and
quite probable unless one side or the other
yields. The Legislature and the whole
State were startled when, on the I'd in
slant, Gov. Luce sent a MESSAGE to the two
houses asking in substance that the bill
appropriating 1892, 565.94, be recalled and
SO amended that he can give it his APP
pooval.
He first called attention 10 the fact that
the appropriations voted this institution are
constantly and rapidly growing, and gave
the following figures to prove the assertion:
1854. One-t entieth mill tix.....S 81, 10000
Homeopathic College.......... 100000
Legislative appropriation. 62,sOoOO
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1855, 10000
1856. One-twentieth mill tax. ......s 81, 600
Homeopathic College .......... 100000
Legislative appropriation. .... lO7, 10000
Total. ......................s2 $500, 10000
1879 one-twentieth mill tax ......s "a, $500
Homeopathic College. ......... 100000
Legislative Appropriation. 49,, $685.
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $500 HOS
To each of the above should be added
about 100000, being the interest fund
biennially upon university land.
The tuition charged the 79l students
from Michigan is from $40 to S25 per
annum, and Appropriated for the past two
years S52, 900, while the ISL students from
foreign States and countries are only
charged $50 to $35 per year, and paid
during the same two years only S7S,U0
1t will thus be seen that the people of
Michigan, with their 791 students in the
University, are required to pay for the
years 1SS7-'SS,
Total above found. 500 1905
University land tax ................... 60,0J0.00
Michigan students, fees............... 52,O01.0J
Total .............. ........... 81 l. 40 "a
while 7S1 foreign students are reaping the
same benefits and equal advantages for
but SIS, 900.
While the privileges are equal TO any Of
the leading colleges, the cost to outsiders
is so low as to be out of all proportion.
Amherst College charges outsiders S1l0
per year, Yale $40, and Harvard $3.50.
The Agricultural College appropriation
bill only appropriated S65, 200, yet it con-
tanned a proviso, THAT it shall be the duty
of the State Board of Agriculture to fix such
tuition fee for non resident students as
shall in its judgment compensate for the
extra expense for accommodating such
students"
Such proviso the Governor wants put
in the bill in question, and all Michigan
taxpayers who study the question will say
he is right.
In his inaugural message he said: ave
cannot afford TO impair or cripple the use
fulness of any of our State institutions.
The educational, charitable and penal must
be provided for, but the most scrutinizing
care should be exercised in making appro-
priations." To that proposition he still
adheres, though sharing in the pride which
we have a right to feel in the high distinc-
ton our university has attained" He is,
however, "of the opinion that the item of
fN,., It,,l tl,o,
ment thereof could be greatly reduced, and
The university still maintain its high degree
of efficiency"
The two houses thus far show
disposition to leave the bill where it is
and let the Governor take the responsible
ity of vetoing it if he thinks it prudent to
take uDon his shoulders the censure that
must fall upon him Mt such a course. 1t is
believed that he would not dare to kill it in
that way, and thus put such an important
institution into SO strange and unheard-
OF position, but would allow it to become
a law without his signature, as it would if
neither vetoed nor approved within ten days
after its presentation TO him.
MARINE CITYITES HAPPY.
After the veto by the Governor of the
new city charter for Marine City
the friends of the measure made a
desperate effort for its passage over
the veto. This was done BY the
Senate, and barely failed by three or four
votes in the House. new bill was looked
up and has been passed by both
houses. The Governor is understood to
have investigated the matter more since his
veto than before, and to be now ready 70
approve the bill, SO that burg will soon be
city in fact, as they have always been in
name.
THE LIQUOR TAX BILL
that had been partly considered at the time
of our last, was again taken up on the lst
instant, and, after Icing SO amended as to
allow bondsmen to reside anywhere within
the township, instead of being confined to
the village where the town is located,
and allowing them to go on two
bonds instead Of confining them
10 one, with some other lesser
amendments, it was again put over until
the Sth, owing to the fact that Senator j.
W. Babcock (of the Liquor Traffic Com
mittee) was called away by the death of his
mother, and is needed here during the dis
cussion of the bill.
RAILROAD FARE BILL.
The several bills for two-cent- perl mile
rate and for a sliding scale Of rates, to be
regulated by gross earnings of roads and
age of the same, were also put over until